Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 13th October, 1961, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick woman cff the island of Inishere and an injured child from Kilronan and bring them to the mainland at Rossa- veel, where they could be taken to hospital. As there was no other suitable boat available, the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, lelt her moorings at three o'clock. There was a moderate south- erly breeze and a heavy swell. It was low water. The life-boat brought the woman and the child to the mainland and reached her station at 11.30..